From one of the Dragonflight press blitz interviews with Morgan Day:
Moving on to a quick question about Evoker, are there any plans to include more armor pieces showing while in dragon form?
This is a really fun topic, you know our art team knocked it out of the park with Evokers in particular. There’s such an incredible amount of customization with them. I’m gonna butcher the number but I’ve heard the trivia item thrown around at the team where there is more Evoker customization options available in terms of combinations they can create, than there are grains of sand on the planet. And I’m like, I don’t know who’s gonna verify that, I’m not going to, but I believe you when you tell me that. Someone did the math I’m sure. So yeah, that’s something that is really important to us, is having all these customization options available to you and being able to really show them off and see them. And with the Evoker in particular, something that we focused on was the question of is what is the most iconic and most visible pieces of armor? Shoulders immediately come to mind, it’s that major silhouette changing, Warcraft has a beloved history of shoulder armor in particular and their scale and size and how big or small they are over time. So that was one we knew we wanted to add there, but we also wanted to make sure that the Evoker’s customization options and their identity of that dragon class, that dragon race was still very noticeable. Certainly something that we could change, but ultimately we’re really happy with where we landed on that one, and we feel like especially with sets coming back and that awesome class fantasy there we wanted to see that represented on the Evokers, but not kind of completely covering up all those awesome dragon aesthetics.
Emphasis mine. He says that this was a choice, not a limitation, and his provided reasoning is contradicted by the fact that they already gave us a set to cover up with.
Again, this is a design choice. Not a technical hurdle. The one thing that constantly grates on my nerves when playing my Evoker is there by intent. And I truly hope this changes in the near future, especially with it rolling out to more classes.
I play as the dragon race to play as a dragon. Not a knock-off Elf that’s a glorified mannequin for transmog. Please, let me play the transmog endgame as the dragon I want to be.
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This is the direction they need to go to improve Dracthyr as a race. Not by giving more options to avoid playing as a Dracthyr (visages) but by actually making it appealing to play as a Dracthyr.
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The visage forms are atrocious, and by default I am biased against human faces. I play Dracthyr to be an anthro dragon. I want to have an actual full transmog arsenal instead of tabards, belts, and shoulders that NEVER match the Dracthyr armor.
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From what little I understand, it’s a choice that has now resulted in a limitation, because however the race was designed has extremely butchered texture mapping in order to make stuff like the body size and scale customization work in the first place. It’s kinda like those freakshow faces you see when one race’s skin gets loaded onto the wrong shape, except by “design” since they were never intended to show off textured armor in the first place. 
I imagine what makes the decision feel worse is that the high quantity of people who play elves and humans in the first place made this easier to justify at the time, because “well if the players want to dress up, they have visages for that”. It would’ve been a time saver at the cost of not future-proofing the race.
To be honest, I think the visages are fine. But I’m not someone that would ever choose to play as an elf. As you say, I chose the dragon to play as a dragon. The barbershop armour is just giving you a chose of being “draconic regal” or “nude.” And solely having those two options gets old fast.
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I’ll never be able to like a majority of the playable races. Human faces make me vomit.
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More to the point, the quality of the visage is beside the point. It could be the best or worst thing we’ve ever seen. But that’s immaterial. As we want to play as dragons.
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You voted for it with your wallet. Blizzard is notoriously lazy.
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Yep, I’m sure Blizzard would have gone back to the drawing board on this very specific issue if I didn’t spend a couple bucks.
albeitthoughever, if you and the 800,000 subs did you’d actually get an improved product.
Yeah, no. You’d think that someone as cynical as you would realize that they’d reduce support, if not cut it off entirely. You don’t pour more cash into something when revenue disappears.
$90+sub+tip. Enjoy your product!
I do, by and large. But that’s not what’s being discussed here. 
If you would like to engage in an actual discussion, be my guest.
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To heck with transmog, my mechagnome is still waiting on getting her legs back.
It’s been YEARS now… Blizzard has a worse track record than the VA hospital when it comes re-attaching body parts.
Hello, I present to you my face for your viewing pleasure.
Good. Because unless they plan on allowing me to transmog Visage and lizard experiment separately… I do not want more transmog for lizard experiment form.
I ask this question with complete sincerity and do not intend to be glib: why do some people wish to play as the dragon race, but do not wish to play as a dragon? I don’t mean to be glib. I can usually understand the desires of others, even if I do not share them. But this one confounds me.
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Some of them just wanted to play evoker. Others think the horned human look is better. I know dragonform dracthyr have their fans but the race itself seemed to have a lukewarm reception.
Fair, but some are excited for Dracthyr becoming other classes specifically to play as the Visage form. And there have always been Worgen players who want to play solely as the Human form. I’m not deriding that desire - I just legitimately want to understand it.
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I like my drac but god I hate trying to mog for him because a shoulder/belt that looks good in visage often looks horrid in true form. I almost feel like having the option for mogs only working either/or would be an ok middle ground for people like me.
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